Connecting new music player won't allow oggs

[Mark Fraser]

On Monday 29 October 2007 12:46:39 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> On Sunday 28 October 2007, Mark Fraser wrote:
> > On Sunday 28 October 2007 13:51:33 Mark Fraser wrote:
> > > Just tried to transfer some songs to a new music player, but it
> > > wouldn't let me. In Configure Portable Player Support I tried adding
> > > ogg as one of the formats the player supported, but it appeared as &ogg
> > > and disappeared when I saved.
> > >
> > > This is with a new install of Kubuntu 7.10.
> >
> > I can now confirm this happens on another machine too. To test,
> >
> > Settings -> Configure Amarok
> >
> > Media Devices
> >
> > Add device
> >
> > Generic Audio Player
> >
> > Add a name and click OK
> >
> > Goto 'configure device settings' and under 'Transferring files to media
> > device' try to add ogg or anything other than mp3 or wma you will see an
> > & somewhere in the name eg. &ogg or a&c3 and you will not be able to save
> > it.
>
> I can reproduce this but so far haven't found a fix.  I'll work on it.

Thanks Jeff, at least I now know it's not something I'm missing. In the 
meantime I've been doing what Greg mentioned in his post.